VideoStudio Ultimate 2023 - Is it worth it?

[jdowney]

Hello,

I have been an annual user and purchaser since the Ulead days; however, I did not purchase VS2019 or VS2020 Ultimate. Too buggy... So I purchased VS Ultimate 2021 but never use it, because it is a bit weird to use for me (wipes out previous versions of VS, strange UI, etc)… So I will stick with VS2018 Ultimate until something better comes along... Is that VS2023? What do you think...


Also does anyone have a better deal than 35% off...

Thank you
Jeff

[dalessad]

Hey jowney,
Perhaps I should have purchased an earlier version of VS. In my personal experience, VS2021 and VS2023 are the same unstable versions. They **CONSTANTLY** crash on me. I just posted on a separate thread with more details on the crash I'm experiencing. Crashed with moving pictures, adding pictures, copy/paste, playing, adding an effect, etc. I also get out of memory warnings and corrupt VSP files. (out of memory despite there being 10-15GB free memory out of my 32GB RAM total)

I really like like the interface, timeline and the rich set of options and all other programs I've seen out there don't come close to the feature set. BUT the crashing is so painful I abandoned my project for several months (VS2021 version) while I waited for VS2023. It's probably more unstable than the VS2021 version. Granted, my project is not small (~1300-1500 photos loaded on the timeline and 1900 in the library.

Not sure what to say. I think you can run both versions but be sure not to open old files and resave as they will not be backwards compatible. I just found this out with VS2021 to VS2023 but made a copy of my VSP before opening with the new VS2023.

I'll let the forum know if there are any resolutions or if I just exercise the 30-day money back guarantee.

Good luck!

[jdowney]

Thank you very much Dalessad for sharing your experiences, very insightful...


Anyone else have any thoughts or experiences with the 2023 version of the software?

All comments welcome...

Jeff

[Ken Berry]

For quite a few users the question of the lowest levels at which audio could be set has been a significant complaint about previous versions. While Corel was claiming levels were set to zero, in fact they were only going down to -30 db. And at that level they could still be picked up in rendered in certain circumstances. VS 2023 finally dealt with that and reduces audio levels to -60 db. This is a major development in the new VS. See https://forum.corel.com/viewtopic.php?p=398089#p398089

[gewb]

On my system VS2023 has been stable with only a couple crashes. As with any piece of software there are little niggles that I wish were fixed. Also miss some of the old addons from previous releases such as Boris FX and Garffiti.